We left Alligator River Marina on Friday Morning. We had a brisk light wind, but nothing to compare with the weather we had when we arrived. Checking the maps, and not having a schedule we decided to go on through to the Pungo River side of the channel and call it a day. We had a chilly night at Dower Creek, woke to pleasant chilly weather and set off again. We realized our good friends and sometimes traveling companions Joy and Tom Merritt in S/V Kokopelli were in New Bern. It has not been a stop over for us, but what the hey so we went a little out of our way up the Neuse River and spent the weekend with friends.
Tom helped Tom with our electrical problem and WHOOO HOOO it is finally fix. It took the two of them all day Sunday and several trips to West Marine and Lowe's, boat stuff scattered below, grunts and groans and cusses but CHT is fixed. Today the batteries stayed charged.
Tom M bought a new main sail, so we stayed Monday so Tom E could help take off the old one and install the new. That project also had hitches in the giddy up with both Tom's admitting the luft rope on the sail was not large enough to stay in the track.
Joy and I took a walk into town, a very historical place with place signs, wonderful old buildings, Spanish moss draped trees. We had a love lunch and purchased a few things. I did not know this was where Pepsi started. They were test marketing a new drink named after the founder Caleb. It is just mineral water, kola nut extract and spring water. Expensive at 2.00 a bottle. I own two, tried one.....
yuk... sorry but it is the color of watered down Pepsi and taste like salty cola ginger ale. Tom tried it... he gave it a thumbs down also.
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| At Texas Steak house |
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| Great New Bern Marina |
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| They have Bear statues all round town |
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| Welcome to the Pepsi Store! | The Birthplace of Pepsi, located in historic New Bern, North Carolina, is the actual site where Pepsi-Cola was first invented by Caleb Bradham in his pharmacy in 1898. The Birthplace of Pepsi is owned and operated by the Minges Bottling Group located in Ayden, North Carolina, and first opened the doors to the Birthplace of Pepsi Store on the 100th Anniversary of Pepsi-Cola in 1998. |
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| Pepsi, Caleb Bradham, and modeled after his original 1893 formula, Pepsi is showing investors that it’s not giving up on the soda business any time soon. Pepsi isn’t oblivious to the fact that a growing number of Americans, especially those picky twenty-somethings that seem to be throwing the whole consumer goods industry for a loop, just don’t want to drink conventional soda. So it’s capitalizing on the popularity of all things artisanal—from craft beer to handmade soap—and betting on this: People still love sugary soft drinks.They just need a new story to go with them: Et voilá, Caleb’s Kola is here with a trendy blue label, on a classic glass bottle, and with a short list of earthy ingredients. Well, actually, the ingredients list isn’t that short. Though the marketing materials emphasize a simple trio of sparkling water, fair trade cane sugar, and kola nut extract (augmented with spices and citrus oil), the full list includes caramel color, caffeine, and additives such as gum arabic.Caleb’s Kola is being sold in select Costco stores in New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. |
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